CATEGORIES
OPEN SEASON
The rising popularity of polyamory.
Crown Heights North
The dead man decided to try the running app. He hadn’t run for years. Not since his mid-thirties. Now he was in his early fifties. Or he had been in his early fifties, recently enough. Would he be in his early fifties forever? He tapped the gray oblong and waited as the percentage-downloaded dial advanced, slowly. Much has yet to be revealed, he whispered to himself, in a tone he had used more often when he was a kid, when he had expected his life to resemble a tale of adventure, or of horror, or one with a mystery to solve, or a magical stone to obtain.
THE VENTRILOQUIST
How Hollywood's most in-demand script doctor found his own voice.
NATURE, WOW
Spend five minutes in nature and you’ll see what everyone’s talking about, with the mountains and zoos and watermelons. It’s breathtaking.
TIPPING POINTS
The path from the tossed coin to the swivelling iPad.
UNSAFE PASSAGE
A Palestinian poet's perilous journey out of his homeland.
Watch This Space
The global ambitions of Invader's street art.
MUSICAL REVOLUTION
\"Buena Vista Social Club\" and \"How to Dance in Ohio.\"
ROYAL BLUES
The end of \"The Crown,\" on Netflix.
SPACING OUT
The novelist Samantha Harvey sends astronauts, and readers, into orbit.
FAMILY MATTERS
Am I one of the last living relatives of Bruno Schulz?
A GLOSSARY OF LAUGHS
\"... Ha!\" You're at a cocktail party and someone just made a reference to the Kenneth Lonergan play \"This Is Our Youth\" that you didn't find particularly funny, but you still want everyone to know that you understood it.
REARRANGEMENTS
Crosswords, immigrants, and the American melting pot.
GRAY AREAS
\"The Zone of Interest\" and \"Anselm.\"
DISPOSSESSED
\"Manahatta\" and \"Life & Times of Michael K.\"
TOKYO STORY
Greenpoint's upscale portal to Japan.
I SPY
The Espionage Act is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?
LAUGH LINES
The funny thing about comedy.
The Good Denis
When—after I'd long hesitated, lost my nerve, thought better of it—I finally gathered the strength to ask my decreasingly lucid mother if she remembered a certain scene that still brought an ache to my grownup heart, she gave me a mystified, offended stare, a stare of virtuous indignation, and then, collecting herself, answered gently, as you might answer a very old person who, you realize, didn't mean to say such a ridiculous thing, that what I was talking about not only hadn’t happened but could not, in any case, possibly have happened.
WHAT MAKES A MURDER?
How a draconian legal doctrine imprisons people for killings they didn't commit.
TERMS OF AGGRIEVEMENT
The Gen Z comedian Leo Reich blasts his elders-and himself.
FOLDING THE EARTH IN HALF
[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. -The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022.
SLEEPER CELLS
To catch more carcinogens, we need to widen our scope.
Annals of Hollywood – The Man Behind the Nose
How Kazu Hiro transformed Bradley Cooper.
You're Glowing
Ilana Harris-Babou'’s impish take on wellness culture.
The Critics – Books– Your Lying Eyes
People now use A.I. to generate fake videos indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?
HERE COMES TROUBLE
“Napoleon” and Monster.”
SONGS OF HERSELF
“Hell's Kitchen,” at the Public, and The Gardens of Anuncia,” at Lincoln Center.
FRATERNAL ECLIPSE
The strange case of Israel Joshua Singer.
STAR CROSSED
The first rule of the celebrity couple: It always involves more than two people.